Discovered digging with oldtime frenzy into his new job (as general manager of Oakland's swagger new Golden Gate Turf Club, readying its track for next month's opening) was trigger-tongued Edward ("Slip") Madigan. During his rip-roaring tenure as St. Mary's football coach (1921-39) he made himself as controversial a Bay Area figure as Harry Bridges, his Galloping Gaels famed as the nation's toughest, gaudiest, barnstormingest small-college team.

Blonde, blue-eyed Mary Lee Abbott, 19, 5 ft. 2, won the award of a five-man jury (including James Montgomery Flagg) as the most glamorous debutante of Manhattan's 1940-41 season, thus taking a long lead over all contenders for the title left vacant when Socialite Josephine Johnson got engaged last summer.

Genial, 70-year-old ex-Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings invited 40 of his cronies as usual to play in the 16th annual Homer S. Cummings Golf Tournament at Pinehurst, N. C., then beat the lot for the second successive year. Prepared for this contingency, Champion Cummings got sleek, smart little onetime Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, ex-Ambassador to Belgium and to Russia, now assistant at the State Department, to present him with his own trophy.

Veteran Starlet Betty Grable, of the sensational legs and looks (last year displayed in Du Barry Was a Lady, since then on the screen), cooed in Manhattan: "I think kindness is the most important thing in a person. Gee, when anybody does anything nice for me I just about fall flat on my face. Every time I even smile at a man any more the papers have me practically married to him. Outsiders don't understand about things. If I ever get married again, and I probably will, some time, I'll marry an actor, at least that's what I think, but gee, you never know who you are going to fall in love with."

Because his broadcast's Crossley rating shot up two points when John Barrymore guested for him, Bandmaster of Ceremonies Rudy Vallee made it permanent, announced that the "Great Profile" would rant & glower regularly on his program.

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